Steve Roberts
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I’d render to a high-quality codec such as Animation, then use Flash or Sorenson Squeeze to compress to FLV format. Then I’d give the FLV to the web developer.
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How about the Avid Meridien codec?
(look on the Avid site or the Automatic Duck site)
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Most stock houses use Photo-JPEG for their footage.
Do some tests, comparing P-JPEG at 89/91% with the same at 100%, with Animation to see what you find to be an acceptable quality loss.
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Oh, yes. If you search the AE COW for “YUV” and “FCP” you should find more info. CS3’s color profiles may solve that, but search the forum. I haven’t delved into that feature yet.
Anybody else?
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Unless you go on eBay, you can only buy the latest version of AE. Check the Adobe site.
AE and FCP are completely independent — they really don’t work together out of the box. If you want to send your FCP sequence into AE as a series of layers, you need to buy the Automatic Duck plugin. And you can’t go back (AE to FCP).
But as I said, unless you go private, you can only buy the latest version of AE.
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[Dave LaRonde] “When you overexpose a subject, you have essentially thrown away the detail in the bright parts.”
Sorry, Dave, you’re being too nice — there’s no “essentially”. The detail is gone. Thrown away. Not there. By saying “re-create the detail”, you mean “paint in every pore, wrinkle and shadow by hand”, no? 🙂
And to John, when we take a white blotch and bring it down, we get gray. If we add colour, we get a pink blotch. (sorry, I assumed caucasian) If the area around the blotch is all the same colour, then you could possibly use the replace colour effect to replace white with that surrounding colour … but if the area surrounding the blotch has variations in colour or tone, you’ll notice the blotch. Still, try replace colour. You might have to apply it to a masked dupe of the footage so you don’t pinkify things like teeth and eyeglasses highlights.
We’ve all heard about bringing down the highlights — the only way to do that and get the detail back is on-set, with powder, or by reducing the light or exposure. Powder is best. Make the CEO sit still for it! Show him a shot of a bald guy with a shiny head! All of this before shooting, of course. 🙂
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Are your layers set to the transfer mode “alpha add”? If not, give it a try.
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Ah, don’t underestimate the value of pre-production. 🙂
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My guess is that they clothed the person in black, to make things easier. Have you searched for “ipod” on the COW? Maybe go back a year or more.
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Try making a new AEP and saving it. Then you should be able to find out what type it is. In OSX, you can search, and it will show the file type. In Windows, I’m not sure … maybe right-click, and properties? Maybe there’s another way, if in fact Windows names it as a different type.